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WikiProject Germany

Willkommen to WikiProject Germany! We are a group of editors dedicated to the expansion and refinement of Wikipedia’s coverage of the German republic, people, monuments and culture. If you wish to join us, simply sign your name on our roster.

Should you have any questions about our project, just drop us a line on our discussion page. If you’re lucky, you might even find some fellow project members in the Wikipedia IRC chat (#wikipedia-en). If you speak German, you may want to also try the German Wikipedia chatroom (#wikipedia-de).

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Germany, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Germany in a fair and accurate manner.

As of 5 January 2026, there are 133,566 articles and other project resources within the scope of WikiProject Germany. For a more detailed overview see Germany article statistics.

A monthly top 1000 list of Germany-related popular articles is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Popular pages.

Goals

1. Kill all backlogs.
2. Get this project organized.
3. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to Germany. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
4. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of Germany in the English language.
5. Build all Top Importance Germany Articles to Good Article status at a minimum. Current progress: 11 out of 136 meet this criteria.

Project divisions

• Reference and navigation - the "keys to the country" (and of key importance)
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Germany's predecessor states who have shaped Germany
• Photo requests (talk) – adding and requesting images of Germany.

Related groups

• WikiProject Intertranswiki/German
• German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board - also for Austrian, Swiss and other German language issues
• German football task force
• WikiProject Bavaria
• WikiProject Lower Saxony (defunct)
• WikiProject Frankfurt (defunct)
• WikiProject Friesland (defunct)
• Holy Roman Empire task force of the WikiProject Former countries
• WikiProject Munich (defunct)
• WikiProject German districts (defunct)
• WikiProject Germanic Mysticism (defunct)
• WikiProject Hanseatic League (defunct)
• WikiProject Silesia (defunct)

Task forces

• Prussia task force (talk) – for articles related to Prussia
  • Prussian Standesamter task force (talk) – (defunct)
• Hamburg task force (talk) – for any article related to Hamburg
• Mainz task force (talk) – for articles related to Mainz
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Germany.
• German cinema task force of WikiProject Films
• German military history task force of the Military history WikiProject
• GDR task force – for articles relating to the history and culture of the German Democratic Republic
• German football task force for articles related to association football in Germany within Wikipedia:WikiProject Football
• Nazi affiliation Task Force for removing whitewashed/undue articles about Nazi involvement

Article alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

• 04 Jan 2026 – Am-progressive (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by JacobTheRox (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Jan 2026 – Grete Hermann (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Revolving Doormat (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Jan 2026 – Gdańsk Castle (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Luxtaythe2nd (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Dec 2025 – Dorfromantik (board game) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Launchballer (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Dec 2025 – Mehria Ashuftah (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2025 – Uns ist ein Kind geboren (Telemann) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Dec 2025 – An Ordinary Youth (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by ScalarFactor (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Dec 2025 – George Brandt (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Guerreroast (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Dec 2025 – Thomas Johannes Mayer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Dec 2025 – Mecki (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion

(6 more...)

Articles for deletion

• 04 Jan 2026 – Vaya Con Tioz (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RedShellMomentum (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 04 Jan 2026 – La Ultima / Live in Berlin (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RedShellMomentum (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Live in Hamburg (Böhse Onkelz album) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RedShellMomentum (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Live in Dortmund (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RedShellMomentum (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Tour 2000 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RedShellMomentum (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Lügenmarsch (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Insurancy (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ivanvector (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 04 Jan 2026 – Skycrest (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JohnMizuki (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 03 Jan 2026 – Johann of Limburg Stirum (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 03 Jan 2026 – Heinz-Josef Große (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 04 Jan 2026 – U-cee (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Duffbeerforme (t · c): Not notable. Lacks independent coverage
• 28 Dec 2025 – Niemegk, Saxony-Anhalt (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c) was deproded by Ingratis (t · c) on 04 Jan 2026
• 24 Dec 2025 – Laurenz Beckemeyer (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Scope creep (t · c) and endorsed by Geschichte (t · c) on 25 Dec 2025 was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 10 Dec 2025 – Category:West German female handball players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2025 – Category:German female handball players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2025 – Category:East German female handball players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Nov 2025 – Category:German milliners (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Category:Nazi concentration camps in Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Category:Nazi concentration camps in Lithuania (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Category:Nazi concentration camps in Latvia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Category:Nazi concentration camps in Estonia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Dec 2025 – Category:Hockey in Germany (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Place Clichy (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 04 Jan 2026 – Socialism in Germany (talk · edit · hist) →State Socialism (Germany) was RfDed by I2Overcome (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jan 2026 – Freee Hanseatic City of Bremen (talk · edit · hist) →Bremen was RfDed by Casablanca Rock (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• undated – Scharnhorst-class cruiser (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
• undated – Battle of 42nd Street (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 30 Dec 2025 – Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 29 Dec 2025 – The Monuments Men (book) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DrOrinScrivello (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Dec 2025 – Nazi zombies (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Dec 2025 – Sinking of U-85 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PhoenixCaelestis (t · c); start discussion
• 13 Dec 2025 – Irmin Schmidt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by LastJabberwocky (t · c); start discussion
• 13 Dec 2025 – Herero and Nama genocide (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Buidhe (t · c); start discussion
• 08 Dec 2025 – Nazi concentration camps (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Nov 2025 – SMS Eber (1903) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Parsecboy (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Nov 2025 – Philipp Grubauer (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by XR228 (t · c); start discussion
• 06 Nov 2025 – Eike Wilm Schulte (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion

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Featured article reviews

• 24 Mar 2025 – Anne Frank (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Ali Beary (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 19 Dec 2025 – Syrian civil war (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Johnson524 (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 04 Oct 2025 – Dorfromantik (board game) (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Chorchapu (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 30 Dec 2025 – Nazi zombies (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Nazi zombie by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Dec 2025 – National Democratic Party of Germany (talk · edit · hist) move request to The Homeland (Germany) by Donenne (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 24 Dec 2025 – Mauthausen concentration camp (talk · edit · hist) move request to Mauthausen extermination camp by IdanST (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 24 Dec 2025 – Majdanek concentration camp (talk · edit · hist) move request to Majdanek extermination camp by IdanST (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 02 Jan 2026 – Ida Straus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Isidor Straus by ~2026-35756 (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Nov 2025 – Gigaset Communications (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Gigaset by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 30 Dec 2025 – Heckler & Koch G3 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Ominae (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Nov 2025 – Volkswagen Gol (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Not stuart60 (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Nov 2025 – Junge Wilde (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hitsuji777 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Oct 2025 – Paul Schulz (ufologist) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wikifixer559 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Apr 2025 – Evil Queen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 May 2024 – Mercedes-Benz G-Class (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by A75 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Apr 2024 – Volkswagen Type 2 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 93.150.208.84 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Nov 2023 – Greater Poland (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Oct 2022 – Freikorps (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AnomieBOT (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jan 2022 – Mittelstand (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kaihsu (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for creation

• 04 Jan 2026 – Draft:Payrails (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PaperKite12 (t · c)
• 25 Dec 2025 – Draft:John Stanley (British army officer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ArchivexStan (t · c)
• 29 Dec 2025 – Draft:Faculty of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by OpenKnowledgeFox (t · c) was declined by Lijil (t · c) on 31 Dec 2025
• 29 Dec 2025 – Draft:274th Infantry Regiment (United States) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by HappyHistorian1862 (t · c) was accepted to 274th Infantry Regiment (United States) (talk · edit · hist) by PigeonChickenFish (t · c) on 03 Jan 2026
• 14 Dec 2025 – Draft:Max Schlötter (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Stefanie Geldbach (t · c) was moved to Max Schlötter (talk · edit · hist) by ChrysGalley (t · c) on 31 Dec 2025

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Related Portals

The main portal for this project is Portal:Germany. Other Germany-related portals are being deleted or moved to project space so they can continue to be useful for topic development:

Federal states

• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Baden-Württemberg
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Bavaria
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Berlin
• Portal:Brandenburg
• Portal:Hamburg
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Hesse
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Lower Saxony
• Portal:North Rhine-Westphalia
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Rhineland-Palatinate
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Saarland
• Portal:Saxony
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Saxony-Anhalt
• Portal:Schleswig-Holstein
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Thuringia

Regions and history

For more Germany-related portals (history, regions, etc.) see Category:Germany portal and "Portal" lists in Germany article statistics in the sidebar.

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Barnstars

German Barnstar of National Merit, as rendered by Antou

Our project, like the other national WikiProjects, possesses a barnstar that may be awarded to outstanding contributors to the project or members particularly deserving of recognition for some effort made for the cause of the project.

• {{subst:The Germany Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}

		The Germany Barnstar
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Resources

Infoboxes

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Germany-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Stub templates

• Category:Germany stubs

Subpages

• list of all subpages of this page

Templates

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{{User WP Germany}}	This user participates in WikiProject Germany.
{{Infobox German location}}	WikiProject Germany Country Germany Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)  • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)	Template allowing town info to be copied directly from de.wiki.
{{IPA}}	German pronunciation: [...]	Template for indicating German pronunciation. See Help:IPA/Standard German for transcription used.
{{translated|de}}		Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia - to be placed on talk pages
{{subst:WelcomeGER}}~~~~	== Welcome to WikiProject Germany == Welcome, WikiProject Germany, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful: The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you. Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it. We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful. A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Here are some tasks you can do. Please remove completed tasks from the list. Requests: German Archaeological Institute at Rome, Deutsche Familienversicherung, Hermann Bachmann (Journalist), Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg, Rolf von Bargen, Hennes Bender, Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc, Rolf Brandt (1886–1953), Jan Philipp Burgard, Rudolf Epp, Lisa Feller, Georg Arbogast von und zu Franckenstein, Georg Gafron, Ferdinand Heribert von Galen, Gundula Gause, Wolfgang von Geldern, Karl-Heinz Hagen, Herbert Helmrich, Nils von der Heyde, Monty Jacobs (1875–1945), Siegfried Kauder, Klimbim Matze Knop, Wolfgang Kryszohn, Claus Larass, Isidor Levy (1852–1929), Richard Lewinsohn (1894-1968), Markus Löning, Tobias Mann, Mathias Müller von Blumencron ,Günther Nonnenmacher, Nord bei Nordwest, Günter von Nordenskjöld, Anke Plättner, Hans Heinrich X. Fürst von Pless, Günter Prinz, Ulrich Reitz, Hans Sauer (inventor), Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg, Paul Schlesinger (1878-1928), Hajo Schumacher, Der Seewolf (1971), Otto Theodor von Seydewitz, Christoph Sieber (comedian), Dorothea Siems, Werner Sonne, Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, Christoph Strässer, Joseph von Utzschneider, Hedda von Wedel, Jürgen Wieshoff, Hans Wilhelmi, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Doris Wittner (1880-1937), Alexandra Würzbach Unreferenced: especially Unreferenced BLPs Cleanup: 53541 issues in total as of 2024-03-03 Translate: Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia Stubs: the largest stub category is Category:German history stubs; see also 111 articles in Category:German MEP stubs Update: Deutsches Wörterbuch Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements and the todo list Orphans: Orphaned articles in Germany Photo: Take/Add requested photographs Help assess the quality of 884 unassessed articles If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!	Welcome message for new project members
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Conventions

• Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions
• For German rail transport conventions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Rail transport in Germany task force/Conventions.

Websites

• CIA World Factbook on Germany
• Germany Tourism
• Information from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Germany GenWeb Project - for details on some lesser historical figures
• "Deutschland-Portal"

For articles to be translated, see Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia

Notes

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.